Indian police have shot and killed 12 people, including three children, at a security checkpoint in the jungles of Jharkand.

The security forces opened fire on a vehicle approaching a checkpoint, which was established after the police received a tip-off that CPI (Maoist) rebels were planning to extort money from local miners.

Police said the dead wore the olive green uniforms of the Maoist rebels and were armed.

“There were three children, aged 14-15 years, among those killed in the encounter,” Director General of Police Jharkhand, DK Pandey said. “They are poisoning innocent minds.”

The US Supreme Court has overturned legislation passed in 2002, which allowed US citizens born in Jerusalem to enter their country of birth as Israel.

The court said Congress went “too far” in passing the law. The law went against the policy of the State Department, which does not list Israel as the place of birth for Jerusalem-born Americans.

The law was not enforced by then-president George Bush or President Barack Obama.

The elections in Turkey saw the ruling AKP party of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan lose its majority, resulting in a hung parliament.

The party received 41% of the vote in the polls, which saw a turnout of 86%.

The president has called on all parties to "preserve the atmosphere of stability" in Turkey.

"I believe the results, which do not give the opportunity to any party to form a single-party government, will be assessed healthily and realistically by every party," Mr Erdogan said.

A three member team of UN appointed investigators for the Commission of Inquiry, said that the violations ere occurring on a “scope and scale seldom witnessed elsewhere.”

Israel’s security cabinet minister Naftali Bennett called on the international community to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the contested Golan Heights, which lies between Syria and Israel.

President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel say sanction on Russia, imposed due to the Ukraine crisis, must remain until a deal to end the fighting is implemented.

The two leaders met during the G7 economic summit, currently ongoing in southern Germany.

The White House issued a statement after Mr Obama's talks with Ms Merkel, saying: "The duration of sanctions should be clearly linked to Russia's full implementation of the Minsk agreements and respect for Ukraine's sovereignty."

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia was not a threat and had "other things to worry about".

He told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera: "Only an insane person and only in a dream can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack Nato.

The European Union's President of the Council of Ministers, Donald Tusk, also signalled a toughening of sanctions in a statement at the G7, while EU sanctions are due to expire at the end of July.

"If anyone wants to start a debate about changing the sanctions regime, the discussion could only be about strengthening it."

Prime Minister David Cameron said he was hopeful that there would be a united front to ensure that sanctions were "rolled over" despite admitting that "sanctions are having an impact on all of us".

Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip, welcomed the decision by Egypt, adding that the move signalled a strengthening relationship between Hamas and Egypt.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri welcoming the decision said,

Advancing Houthi militants in Yemen agreed to UN-brokered peace talks with Yemen’s government on Friday.

A senior member of the Houthi Militant political wing, “Daifallah al-Shami, speaking to Agence France Presse, said,